Standing, left to right: Teresa Satterfield, Acrisio Pires, Aliaksei Akimenka, Natasha Abner, Ezra Keshet

Congratulations Aliaksei Akimenka!

Linguistics PhD candidate, now Dr. Aliaksei Akimenka, successfully defended his dissertation on April 27, 2026 and was awarded his PhD this summer. 

Title: “ How to Stop Moving (and Start Re-Moving), or an Eleatic Guide to the Derivation of Raising-to-Object and Tough Constructions in English ”

Committee: Acrisio Pires (chair), Natasha Abner, Ezra Keshet and Teresa Satterfield